The law on confidentiality and restrictive covenants are in place to ensure that employer’s business interests are protected. Employers may rely on mechanisms such as the confidentiality clauses and restrictive covenants to protect their businesses from damaging competition, disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information. The objective of these provisions is to avoid employees from abusing they employer’s business interests when the employment has come to end. The degree of protection provided to employers differs if the employee has ended the contract of employment. The implied duty of fidelity protects business interests and imposes a obligation employee must not disclose any information or trade secrets of their employers business.
Jones purchase the stock of Smithon outright leaving Smithon intact? The stock should not be purchase by Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones acquiring the assets, liabilities and also would inherit the contractual obligations of the selling corporation, would, be the results of the purchase. In lay terms, he has bought the existing Smithon Corporation and he is responsible of ensuring daily operations run efficiently but the tax aspect of acquisition he is responsible for existing and any future tax liabilities that the selling corporation had. It would be my advice for Mr. Jones to not buy the stock because of the liability of current and future tax obligations which Mr. Jones would incur from the purchase of the stock.
The article “Junking Junk Food”, by Judith Warner, is one that explains two sides to the national obesity problem in the United States. She starts her article by talking about Sarah Palin's objections to the “Obama nanny state” which she believes is out to infringe upon the peoples right to eat whatever they please (401). Glenn Beck is also cited in her paper as objecting to the idea of government regulation. His anger over the issue includes reports of government health inspectors shutting down a 7 year old's lemonade stand (401). With about two-thirds of Americans being obese, the Obama administration has been fighting hard to help Americans with the issue of obesity.
Because the Food and Drug Administration regulates the claims made about foodstuffs, these companies are forced to be creative and come up with witty advertising techniques. In this advertisement for Oscar Mayer bacon, the advertisers use a specific color scheme, skillfully selected words, and a cleverly orchestrated setting to convince the consumer that Oscar Mayer bacon is delectable and superior. Yellow and red are the two most prominent colors in the advertisement. These colors are commonly associated with hunger and a desire for food in the Western world. A prime example of this color usage is the colors of McDonald’s fast food restaurants.
The author of this article, Jeannine Aversa, is stating that key economic indicators point to the likelihood of a recession. Aversa supports her thoughts by noting the real GDP; “crawled at a 1.3 percent pace in the opening quarter of 2007…even weaker than the sluggish 2.5 percent rate in the closing quarter of last year.” The author suggests the main cause of the economic slowdown is due to “the housing slump.” Consumer expenditures are driving the economy, but Aversa worries about a “fallout from risky mortgages and rising energy prices.” Uncertainty of the Feds actions concerning the interest rates is leading to lower investment spending. The author also states that the Feds decision on raising or lowering the interest is due to the
I believe that this concern should be left to the company owners as individuals. Personally, I don’t agree with the fact that the way America gets other countries to bend over backwards is by threatening to cut off financial business ties. I feel that America is trying to gain control of the world by doing so. However, I do agree that any sort of discrimination is unethical and should not be tolerated. That is something that each countries governments should have control over, not a foreign country that threatens to cut off business associations.
“ (Moore 141). While Moore focuses more on the advertising established into school and companies promoting themselves using schools, Gatto speaks more one the effect that this way of schooling creates the adults in the world. Also he explains how marketing on the school systems is keeping the adults nowadays very “childish” or young in the mind. (Gatto 149) According to Gatto if you strip children of all of their independence, and only develop their trivial emotions, they would never truly grow up. (Gatto 154).
Big food producers are displeased with the Obama administration’s rules that require food producers to disclose ingredients and processing methods because this will cost them more to produce food and will also limit what they can sell (and what people will buy). So the new rules increase their costs and potentially can decrease their profits. Cargill, Inc., for example, spent $3.2 million lobbying Congress and the administration since 2008, and in 2008 gave more than $36 million to the campaign funds of congressional candidates (TexPIRG, “Safe Food, Healthy
Carolina Agustin Professor Rucker English 104A 25April, 2012 The Perfect Meals for Every Body Type Throughout the book, The Omnivores Dilemma, there have been three main topics the author talked about and made certain points on. For example, industrialization, pastoral hunting, and gathering. As Michael Pollan, the author, informed us about these topics I realized that I knew what the perfect meal for every body type. Most of us believe that maybe we shall fallow the food pyramid and that, that is the answer to healthy food and good nutrition. Like Pollan pointed out in one of his chapters, fast-food is bad for our health and for us in general.
The Economic concerns are too do with the Economy and recently the economy has been on a decline meaning that the purchasing power of Americans has resulted in the demand of Starbucks products and services to fall. This situation is out of Starbucks’s hands and leads to the results of a fall in revenue simply due to the economic factors of an economy. The social-cultural concerns are things like the consumer habits that form or the changes in what people are buying. A change that has affected Starbucks is the urbanization that has occurred across America. This has helped Starbucks since many of its stores are located in urban areas in the city.